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Julian Rubinstein
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Julian Rubinstein

Julian Rubinstein Biography

He began his career as an agate clerk in the Sports department of the Washington Post, where he also wrote for the Sports and Style sections. He went on to work for four years for Sports Illustrated, before becoming a freelance journalist, and an author.

His award-winning reporting include a profile of John McEnroe; an investigation into the mysterious deaths of the Guarani Indians of Brazil; the inside story of the bloody Hells Angels turf war in Quebec; a profile of the Israeli ecstasy kingpin Jacob "Cookie" Orgad; and an expose about the underground network of illegal egg collectors in the U.K. He also gained access to a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut.

Rubinstein is the author of Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, which was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Best Fact Crime award. He is a member of the PEN American Center and a recipient of a Lannan Foundation Grant, and the Center for Investigative Journalism's Dick Goldensohn Grant. He has received fellowships and artist residencies from the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Ledig International Writers House, the Passa Porta International House of Literature, the Ucross Foundation, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times Magazine, as well as in Best American Crime Writing. He lives in Denver.

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